Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Witnesses opposing the bridge--led by Dietz, a local property owner--said it would deprive the street of light and air. One witness claimed that the "large ominous bridge would seal the doom of Palmer St. . .give it the oppressive atmosphere of a wholesale district...like the garment district...
...probability, the criticism was no life-or-death matter for Yang or Chou. But disgrace was doom enough for the pair since it presumably means they will publish no more books and teach no more classes. Which might go to prove their point that even the class struggle has its limits...
Another little girl appears on the screen. She is strolling through a pleasant field. She stoops, picks a daisy, starts plucking its petals while counting, in the fashion of children from time immemorial. "One, two, three . . ." A man's doom-laden voice comes in stronger and stronger, finally drowning out the child's words. The man is count ing backward: "Ten, nine, eight . . ." The countdown ends, and the screen erupts in atomic explosion, followed by the voice of Lyndon Baines Johnson, who says somberly: "These are the stakes: to make a world in which...
...heard again, notably William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Theodore Roethke, E. E. Cummings. Robert Frost sounds as homey as a neighbor chatting in the kitchen: Robinson Jeffers, proclaiming that violence is "the bloody sire of all the world's values," has a voice as deep as doom...
...parlous are the finances of the News-Call Bulletin, Hearst's afternoon paper in San Francisco, that recurrent rumors of doom wheel above it like vultures. Only last month, a new rumor began circling: the News-Call Bulletin would soon be absorbed by Hearst's other San Francisco paper, the Examiner, which would then switch from a.m. to p.m. to avoid unprofitable competition with the city's third daily, the morning Chronicle. Last week, with weary indignation, the Examiner took to print to try to shoo off the rumor: "There is absolutely no foundation in any report...